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Crofts, Freeman Wills
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
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Truc, Olivier
The French author Olivier Truc is a journalist and war correspondent. Truc has been working for Le Monde in Scandinavia and the Baltic states since 1994. He lives in Stockholm with his Swedish wife.
During a visit to his wife’s native Västerbotten in the north of Sweden he became interested in the Sami people and began to research their history. After a few non-fiction books and television do...
